Worldviews, science and us : redemarcating knowledge and its social and ethical implications, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 10 June 2003 /
Worldviews, science and us : redemarcating knowledge and its social and ethical implications, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 10 June 2003 /
editors, Diederik Aerts, Bart D'Hooghe, Nicole Note.
- Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, 2005.
- 1 online resource (vi, 223 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references.
Worldviews, science and us, global perspectives -- Arguments in favour of inclusive science -- Inclusive worldviews: interdisciplinary research from a radical constructivist perspective -- The chatton-ockham strategy; an alternative to the simplicity principle -- The intrinsic multiplicity of science: Its internal and external confrontations -- an essay -- To know or not to know, one way or another -- A naturalistic and critical view of social sciences and the humanities -- Sciences and knowledge practices: their culture-specific wellsprings -- On high and low styles in philosophy, or, towards a rehabilitation of the ideal -- Towards a re-delineation of the human self-understanding within the western worldview: its social and ethical implications -- Towards a new democracy: consensus through quantum parliament -- Necessity of combining mutually incompatible perspectives in the construction of a global view: quantum probability and signal analysis.
Essays based on meetings sponsored by the Leo Apostel Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies with the theme, "The construction of integrating worldviews."--Summary of p. 1.
English.
9812702040 (electronic bk.) 9789812702043 (electronic bk.) 1281898139 9781281898135 9789812561909 9812561900 (hardcover) 9786611898137 6611898131
2006276616
Science--Philosophy.
Science--Social aspects.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Sciences--Aspect social.
Théorie de la connaissance.
epistemology.
SCIENCE--Essays.
SCIENCE--Nanoscience.
SCIENCE--Reference.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Science--Philosophy.
Science--Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Q175.3 / .W675 2005eb
500
Includes bibliographical references.
Worldviews, science and us, global perspectives -- Arguments in favour of inclusive science -- Inclusive worldviews: interdisciplinary research from a radical constructivist perspective -- The chatton-ockham strategy; an alternative to the simplicity principle -- The intrinsic multiplicity of science: Its internal and external confrontations -- an essay -- To know or not to know, one way or another -- A naturalistic and critical view of social sciences and the humanities -- Sciences and knowledge practices: their culture-specific wellsprings -- On high and low styles in philosophy, or, towards a rehabilitation of the ideal -- Towards a re-delineation of the human self-understanding within the western worldview: its social and ethical implications -- Towards a new democracy: consensus through quantum parliament -- Necessity of combining mutually incompatible perspectives in the construction of a global view: quantum probability and signal analysis.
Essays based on meetings sponsored by the Leo Apostel Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies with the theme, "The construction of integrating worldviews."--Summary of p. 1.
English.
9812702040 (electronic bk.) 9789812702043 (electronic bk.) 1281898139 9781281898135 9789812561909 9812561900 (hardcover) 9786611898137 6611898131
2006276616
Science--Philosophy.
Science--Social aspects.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Sciences--Aspect social.
Théorie de la connaissance.
epistemology.
SCIENCE--Essays.
SCIENCE--Nanoscience.
SCIENCE--Reference.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Science--Philosophy.
Science--Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Q175.3 / .W675 2005eb
500